Novell will be launching a community-based Linux distribution, OpenSuSE, at next week's LinuxWorld in San Francisco, according to sources close to the company. Following in the footsteps of Red Hat Inc. with its successful Fedora Project Linux distribution, Novell Inc. will be opening up its Linux development efforts with OpenSuSE, sources said.

120-150 jobs less are 120-150 people without jobs soon, it doesn't matter if they are marketing/sales people or people who used to clean Novell's toilets for their money.

You do realize that canceling jobs doesn't automatically mean that people get sacked, do you? Canceling jobs most of the time consists of scrapping job vacancies and not filling natural job openings (ie. people retiring).